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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Biodiversity Collections Network [mailto:niballiance=aibs.org@mail9.atl91.mcsv.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Biodiversity Collections Network<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 30, 2015 3:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bentley, Andrew Charles <abentley@ku.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Biodiversity Collections Network News and Updates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">Share Your Thoughts on Biological Informatics Workforce Needs</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">The 2015 AIBS Council Meeting, “Addressing Biological Informatics Workforce Needs,” will convene on December 8th. The Council Meeting will consider the role
of scientific societies and their journals in establishing training capacity and practice guidelines aimed at preparing the next generation of the scientific workforce to excel in the era of “big and open data.”<br>
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Anna Monfils has been invited to participate on behalf of the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) in a panel exploring “Lessons from National Data Initiatives on How to Drive Data Integration Forward.” She will report on, “Biological informatics training
needs for systematics and digitization.” Monfils would like her comments to reflect the community’s needs and is thus soliciting community input. Please consider taking a few minutes to share your thoughts with her. All contributors will be credited. Below
are the questions she would like input on:</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">What do we need to incorporate in our undergraduate training to prepare undergraduates for graduate work in systematics and biological informatics?</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">What do we want all biology undergraduates to know about documenting and digitizing biodiversity, biological informatics and big data when they enter the workforce?</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">What do we need to incorporate in our graduate training to prepare graduate students for careers in systematics and biological informatics?</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">What is needed to provide career systematists with training in digitization and biological informatics?</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">How do we educate the existing scientific workforce about documenting and digitizing biodiversity, biodiversity science, data access, centralizing data and relational data sets?</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">This is an opportunity for the community to ensure that biological informatics and digitization training continue to thrive in the new data publication environment.
Your comments and suggestions have the potential to be incorporated into a consensus statement clarifying the actions needed of federal research agencies and universities, and specifying a role for scientific societies in promoting training and best data practices.
Such a document can influence and strengthen the case for new investments in biological informatics training by universities and other bodies at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It could also catalyze the adoption of stronger career incentives for biodiversity
and biological informatics specialists.<br>
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Please consider sending you thoughts regarding the questions above to <a href="mailto:monfi1ak@cmich.edu" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#6DC6DD">monfi1ak@cmich.edu</span></a> by December 4, 2015.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Collections Communications Workshop</span></strong><br>
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On September 1-2, 2015, BCoN convened a workshop at The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois to consider how the collections community could better coordinate efforts to communicate the importance of biodiversity collections. The meeting brought together nearly
30 individuals representing a broad cross-section of the community. Participants included administrators, scientists, curators, representatives from professional societies and biodiversity initiatives, communications, and government relations.<br>
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Workshop participants generated a rich set of recommendations that will be included in a workshop report. A draft report will be shared with workshop participants and then the broader community in the near future.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Recent Presentations</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">BCoN participated in the 5th Annual iDigBio Summit, which was held in Arlington, Virginia on November 4-5, 2015. Robert Gropp presented on behalf of BCoN and highlighted the
complementarity of BCoN to iDigBio.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Barbara Thiers and Anna Monfils shared information about BCoN with BOTANY 2015 meeting participants.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">New Supporting Organizations</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
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We are happy to announce that the list of BCoN Supporting Organizations has grown to 31. Within the past few weeks, the Society of Herbarium Curators, Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network, Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium at
Florida State University have joined our effort.<br>
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BCoN welcomes all organizations that share a commitment to strengthening the national biodiversity collections community to help ensure its capacity to sustainably digitize collections (specimens and associated data) for the benefit of science and society.
There are no other obligations, although we hope that Supporting Organizations will contribute to our efforts through participation in BCoN programs and information exchange.<br>
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To add your organization to our list of Supporters, please contact Robert Gropp at
<a href="mailto:rgropp@aibs.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD">rgropp@aibs.org</span></a>.<br>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Current Supporting Organizations</span></em></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">American Institute of Biological Sciences</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">American Society of Plant Taxonomists</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Angelo State Natural History Collections</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Bishop Museum</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection, The Ohio State University</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Central Michigan University Herbarium</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Chicago Botanic Garden</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Denver Museum of Nature and Science</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Florida Museum of Natural History</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">H.A. Stephens Herbarium, Emporia State University</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">iDigBio</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Milwaukee Public Museum</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Natural Science Collections Alliance</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">New York Botanical Garden</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">North American Network of Small Herbaria</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium, Florida State University</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Small Collections Network</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Society of Herbarium Curators</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The Field Museum</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">University of Michigan Herbarium</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">University of Wisconsin Insect Research Collection</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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The Biodiversity Collections Network is a five-year Research Coordination Network supported by funding from the U.S.
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<span style="color:#6DC6DD">Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSC Alliance)</span></a>,
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